2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (women)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 800 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 43 athletes from 36 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Athens Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 20, 2004 (preliminary round) August 21, 2004 (semi-finals) August 23, 2004 (final) |
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The women's 800-meter run at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 20, 21 and 23, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 43 athletes took part.
Kelly Holmes from the United Kingdom was Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Moroccan Hasna Benhassi and the Slovenian Jolanda Čeplak .
The German Claudia Gesell and the Swiss Anita Brägger failed in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 2000 |
Maria Mutola ( Mozambique )
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1: 56.15 min | Sydney 2000 |
World Champion 2003 | 1: 59.58 min | Paris 2003 | |
European Champion 2002 |
Jolanda Čeplak ( Slovenia )
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1: 57.65 min | Munich 2002 |
Pan American Champion 2003 |
Adriana Muñoz ( Cuba )
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2: 02.96 min | Santo Domingo 2003 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003 | Neisha Bernard-Thomas ( Grenada )
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2: 04.12 min | St. George’s 2003 |
South American Champion 2003 | Luciana Mendes ( Brazil )
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2:02:06 min | Barquisimeto 2003 |
Asian Champion 2003 | Yin Yin Khine ( Myanmar )
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2: 01.96 min | Manila 2003 |
African champion 2004 | Saïda El Mehdi ( Morocco )
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2: 03.52 min | Brazzaville 2004 |
Oceania Champion 2002 | Liz Auld ( New Zealand )
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2: 11.79 min | Christchurch 2002 |
Existing records
World record | 1: 53.28 min |
Jarmila Kratochvilová ( Czechoslovakia )
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Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany ) | July 26, 1983 |
Olympic record | 1: 53.43 min |
Nadija Olisarenko ( Soviet Union )
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Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia ) | July 27, 1980 |
Note: All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
Preliminary round
A total of six preliminary runs were completed. The first three athletes of each run qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the six fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
August 20, 2004, 10:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Hasna Benhassi |
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2: 01.20 | |
2 | Maria Mutola |
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2: 01.50 | |
3 | Tetiana Petlyuk |
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2: 02.07 | |
4th | Marian Burnett |
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2: 02.12 | |
5 | Nédia Semedo |
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2: 02.61 | |
6th | Olga Cristea |
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2: 08.97 | |
7th | Marlyse Nsourou |
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2: 12.35 | NO |
Forward 2
August 20, 2004, 10:06 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Maria Cioncan |
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1: 59.64 | |
2 | Agnes Samaria |
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2: 00.05 | |
3 | Elisabeth Grousselle |
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2: 00.31 | |
4th | Natalia Khrushchelyova |
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2: 00.56 | |
5 | Diane Cummins |
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2: 01.19 | |
6th | Miho Sato |
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2: 02.82 | |
7th | Adama Njie |
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2: 10.02 |
Forward 3
August 20, 2004, 10:12 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Kelly Holmes |
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2: 00.81 | |
2 | Jearl Miles Clark |
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2: 01.33 | |
3 | Michelle Ballentine |
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2: 01.52 | |
4th | Letitia Vriesde |
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2: 01.70 | |
5 | Tamsyn Manou |
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2: 02.67 | |
6th | Tatyana Roslanova |
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2: 06.39 | |
7th | Sanna Abubkheet |
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2: 32.10 | |
DNF | Anhel Cape |
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Forward 4
August 20, 2004, 10:18 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Svetlana Cherkassova |
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2: 03.60 | |
2 | Mina Ait Hammou |
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2: 03.70 | |
3 | Joanne Fenn |
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2: 03.72 | |
4th | Claudia Gesell |
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2: 03.87 | |
5 | Akosua Serwaa |
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2: 03.96 | |
6th | Faith Macharia |
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2: 06.31 | |
7th | Emilia Mikue Ondo |
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2: 22.88 |
Forward 5
August 20, 2004, 10:24 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Jolanda Čeplak |
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2: 00.61 | at the IAAF as Jolanda Batagelj |
2 | Mayte Martínez |
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2: 00.81 | |
3 | Nicole Teter |
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2: 01.16 | |
4th | Luciana Mendes |
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2: 01.36 | |
5 | Lucia Klocová |
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2: 02.17 | |
6th | Binnaz Uslu |
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2: 03.46 | |
7th | Marie-Lyne Joseph |
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2: 20.23 |
Forward 6
August 20, 2004, 10:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Tatiana Andrianova |
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2: 03.77 | |
2 | Seltana Ait Hammou |
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2: 03.95 | |
3 | Zulia Calatayud |
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2: 03.99 | |
4th | Anita Brägger |
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2: 04.00 | |
5 | Hazel Clark |
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2: 05.67 | |
6th | Noelly Mankatu Bibiche |
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2: 06.23 | |
7th | Tanya Blake |
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2: 19.34 |
Semifinals
The first two athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Run 1
August 21, 2004, 8:40 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Kelly Holmes |
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1: 57.98 | |
2 | Tatiana Andrianova |
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1: 58.41 | |
3 | Jearl Miles Clark |
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1: 58.71 | |
4th | Zulia Calatayud |
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1: 59.21 | |
5 | Agnes Samaria |
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1: 59.37 | |
6th | Elisabeth Grousselle |
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2: 00.21 | |
7th | Mina Ait Hammou |
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2: 00.66 | |
8th | Michelle Ballentine |
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2: 00.94 |
Run 2
August 21, 2004, 8:48 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Hasna Benhassi |
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1: 58.59 | |
2 | Jolanda Čeplak |
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1: 58.80 | at the IAAF as Jolanda Batagelj |
3 | Tetiana Petlyuk |
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1: 59.48 | |
4th | Nicole Teter |
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1: 59.50 | |
5 | Natalia Khrushchelyova |
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2: 00.68 | |
6th | Lucia Klocová |
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2: 00.79 | |
7th | Marian Burnett |
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2: 02.21 | |
8th | Mayte Martínez |
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2: 03.30 |
Run 3
August 21, 2004, 8:56 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Maria Mutola |
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1: 59.30 | |
2 | Maria Cioncan |
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1: 59.44 | |
3 | Svetlana Cherkassova |
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1: 59.80 | |
4th | Diane Cummins |
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2: 00.30 | |
5 | Joanne Fenn |
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2: 00.60 | |
6th | Seltana Ait Hammou |
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2: 00.64 | |
7th | Luciana Mendes |
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2: 02.00 | |
8th | Letitia Vriesde |
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2: 06.95 |
final
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Kelly Holmes |
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1: 56.38 | |
2 | Hasna Benhassi |
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1: 56.43 | NO |
3 | Jolanda Čeplak |
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1: 56.43 | at the IAAF as Jolanda Batagelj |
4th | Maria Mutola |
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1: 56.51 | |
5 | Tatiana Andrianova |
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1: 56.88 | |
6th | Jearl Miles Clark |
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1: 57.27 | |
7th | Maria Cioncan |
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1: 59.62 | |
8th | Zulia Calatayud |
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2: 00.95 |
August 23, 2004, 8:55 pm
The favorite to win was the 2000 Mozambican Olympic champion and reigning world champion Maria Mutola. Her strongest opponent was her British training colleague Kelly Holmes, who had come closer and closer to Mutola's level of performance in recent years. Other candidates for placements in the front area were the Moroccan World Cup fourth Seltana Aït Hammou, the 2001 World Cup third Letitia Vriesde from Surinam and the Slovenian European Champion Jolanda Čeplak. However, Hammou and Vriesde had already failed in the semifinals.
From the front, US runner Jearl Miles Clark set an enormous pace on the first lap of the final - 400 meter split time: 56.37 s. As a result, the field of runners was far apart and smaller groups with small distances between each other had already formed. Directly behind Miles Clark were Holmes and the Romanian Maria Cioncan. At the beginning of the second lap the pace slowed down a bit and the field then moved closer together again. On the back straight, Mutola caught up from a little further back and placed third behind Miles Clark and Holmes. In the finish curve, the leading four runners Miles Clark, Holmes, Mutola and the Russian Tatyana Andrianowa pulled away a little and sprinted for the best starting position for the finish on the home straight. But the athletes behind it quickly caught up again, it stayed very tight. Mutola and Holmes led the last seventy meters, Miles Clark was losing ground more and more now. The battle for gold and silver seemed to be between Mutola and Holmes. Kelly Holmes prevailed in the end and became an Olympic champion. But Maria Mutola even lost her medal due to the two runners, Hasna Benhassi from Morocco - silver - and Jolanda Čeplak - bronze - charging from a little further back and had to settle for fourth place. That was new for her, because she had won every race at World Championships and Olympic Games since the Olympic Games in Athens in 2000. Tatjana Andrianowa was fifth ahead of Jearl Miles Clark.
Hasna Benhassi and Jolanda Čeplak won the first medals for their countries in this discipline.
For Kelly Holmes it was the first Olympic victory, followed five days later by the second over 1500 meters .
Web links
- SportsReference 800m , accessed May 6, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed May 6, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 6, 2018
Video
- Kelly Holmes Wins 800m Gold (First Of The Double) - Athens 2004 Olympics , published October 30, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed on May 6, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f database of IAAF out Jolanda Čeplak there as Jolanda Batagelj:
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 795 , accessed on May 6, 2018